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As we enter the season of the year in which Americans typically gain at least a pound or two that never goes away, a new report from the Gallup Poll finds that as our actual weight drifts upward, so do our perceptions of what our "ideal" weight would be. ...

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to President Barack Obama for putting him in a tough position that led to Obama's announcement that he now supports same-sex marriage, senior administration officials said Thursday. Obama said in an...

Opponents of abortion rights last week gleefully touted the results of a Gallup Poll taken earlier this month showing that the percentage of respondents who identified as "pro-choice" had fallen to 41 percent, the lowest number since Gallup began asking.....

What is the most important thing a seller should look for when hiring a real estate agent to sell their house? We are often asked this question. Is it the size of the company they are licensed with? Is it their marketing program? Their years experience in...

A year can be an eternity in presidential politics. Just ask Hillary Rodham Clinton, who at this time four years ago had been all but penciled in by polls and pundits as the Democratic nominee in a faceoff against Republican Rudy Giuliani. How'd that...

Posted by Rick Pearson at 2:28 p.m. President Barack Obama's top re-election strategist said today it was too early to tell if the killing of Osama bin Laden would affect the November 2012 election, even as some national polls showed......

The story that Carol Moseley Braun is telling supporters (and perhaps even herself) is that being far behind in the polls isn’t necessarily predictive of failure on election day. Yes, the new Tribune poll shows her trailing Rahm Emanuel 49......

Donald S. Kellermann, who brought a new depth to opinion polling on politics, public policy and the media as founding director of the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press, died Tuesday of liver cancer at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 83....

Imagine that life were a board game—let's call it, "Are We There Yet?" The objective of the game—"getting there"—could be to attain happiness and even, say, wisdom (a very new-age board game). It could also be to avoid the pitfalls of...